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By: LM Fontanes. I trained my cyber cat to purr upon touch and now, even when I simply stretch my fingers outward, it starts to rumble. I trained my cyber cat to rub its feline replica face against...
By: Carter Lappin. Itās harder than you might think to train a crow to cast spells. Sure, the language is thereāalakazam comes as easy to them as mama does to you. The problem comes when the crows...
By: Kimberly Ann Smiley. The spreadsheet looked so benign. But I knew better. After all, Iād made the damn thing. I knew the horrifying reality behind the data. Starving asteroid miners, expendable...
By: Liam Hogan. My Roomba keeps telling me about the novel itās written. It trundles across the kitchen floor, but as soon as I enter it changes course, āaccidentallyā bumping against my foot. āHave...
By: Kai Delmas. Two nobodies sit in the train to Nowhere. The last passengers got off at the last stop, somewhere. They had places to be, people to see. One nobody speaks to the other. āWhy are you...
By: Carolyn Divish. āI lost my TimeCar. I just donāt know when it is now.ā Iād only gone into the house for a second to fetch the ill-fitting caftan I wanted to unbuy. When I returned, the TimeCar...
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ALT A man with crow legs sits next to a crow with human legs. Both wear top hats.
By: Liz J. Bradley. āIām a doctor. Iām here to help.ā Iām not a doctor. My screen displays the message: Repeat input, reassuring tone. āIām a doctor. Iām here to help.ā My father was a mechanic. He...
By: Salena Casha. Dave punched in the required fields: white, female, mid-20s, Texas. Part-time coder, part-time barista. Missing: three days. He sipped his coffee and watched the machine think in...
By: Connor Landon Freeman. Eirwen walked across a sea of iceflow and glacier, her feet never feeling the cold. Evergreen trees rose up from the coastline, reminding her of home. She had sculpted...
By: Thomas J. Griffin. After the fourth girl in a row dumped him, Trey got suspicious. They all claimed heād ghosted them, though he replied immediately, and the texts appeared to go through. His...